I'm setting up the THCAD-5 with plasmac and under the
THCAD calibration calculator
I entered the figures located on the back of my THCAD-5. I have Hypertherm 45xp on 50-1 voltage divider, and the THCAD-5 jumper on 32. Since under the calculator I don't see an option for the THCAD-5 I just divided the THCAD-10 results by 2 to get the scale for my THCAD-5. However, when I punch the calculated scale/offset into my Plasmac config the resulting voltage shown at torch idle is 83. If I pulse fire the torch, the reading is 240V. If I play with the scale settings I can manipulate it towards zero but not sure if this is an acceptable way to "manually" correct whatever my issue is? I don't think so, because if I pulse the torch after reducing the scale it only says 1v. The calculator gives me 0.0096*** but I have to bump it down to 0.000058 to make it go from 83v to 0v while the torch is idle.
FWIW, I also have a THCAD-10 that I'm also having the same issue with i.e. after entering my THCAD-10 frequencies into the calculator and then changing my config settings to reflect the newly calculated numbers, my torch at idle is reading about double what the THCAD 5 is. In either case, if I drop the "arc ok" parameter to above the idle reading then I get an "arc ok" signal. I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong?? Thanks for any help.